U – Understands people.
- To understand the mind of a person, look at what he has already achieved.
- To understand the heart of a person, look at what he or she has dreamed of becoming.
- 2 basic reasons why relationships fail:
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- Fear – causes us to erect barriers.
- Selfishness – causes us to focus on self instead of others.
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- 3 vital qualities that enable us to develop lasting understanding relationships:
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- Genuiness.
- Non-possessive love.
- Empathy.
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E – Enlarges people.
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- People become bigger because of them.
- Ask the question, “Are they growing?”
- How do you grow an organization? You grow people.
- How do you grow people? You grow yourself.
- If you do it to help you, it will be short-lived.
- If you do it to help them, then you’ll never get tired of doing it.
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N – Navigates for people.
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- A leader always sees the problem before anyone else.
- Not only do you see it first, you solve it first.
- Bringing someone alongside of you.
- You can always make the trip faster alone, whenever you decide to take a group alongside, the trip will be slower.
- The goal is when you cross the finish line you have someone with you.
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C- Connects with people.
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- People in leadership positions assume that it’s the responsibility of the people below them to connect with them.
- Why is connecting so important? Because connecting with people means that we find their agenda first.
- Connect by pouring yourself into others.
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E – Empowers people.
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- Enlarging a person deals with their individual growth and empowering a person deals with the organizational growth.
- Empowerment – seeing the potential in an individual, saying encouraging and empowering words to that person.
- Getting people to believe in themselves.
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R – Reproduces other people.
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- When you influence a child, you influence a life.
- When you influence a parent, you influence a family.
- When you influence a worker, you influence the company.
- When you influence a leader, you influence everyone who looks to him/her for leadership.
- As you walk with people, your agenda should never be just to see the person. You ought to see the person that you influence.
- What’s the key to their life?
- Every person has within them a seed of greatness. The issue is not do they have the seed; the issue is who is going to discover it?
- The greatest joy you’ll ever have in life is people.
- The greatest sorrow you will ever have in life is people.
- The greatest potential that you’ll ever have in life is people.
- The greatest problems, asset, liability is people.
- They discover them, they fertilize them, and they watch them grow.
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